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Can you tell me how iron intake and blood levels relate to heart disease in older men? I know that women don't have issues with excess iron until after menopause. Do men accumulate more iron because they have no way to eliminate excessive iron stores?
Daniel Kraut attempted an experiment in high school to see if fish could learn from each other. “All the fish died,” he says. “That’s science for you.” Nevertheless, he was hooked on science. And, he says with a laugh, he was able to draw o...